Ocular symptoms as the initial clinical manifestations in patients with extraocular tumors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the variety of clinical presentation, some tumors may be concealed and easily misdiagnosed, leading to delays in management. We report a series of patients who initially presented to an Ophthalmic Clinic with ocular symptoms and were subsequently diagnosed with extraocular tumors.

Methods

Patients who presented to the ophthalmic outpatient clinic at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center with ocular symptoms between April 2013 and December 2019 and were subsequently diagnosed with intracranial or systemic tumors were reviewed retrospectively. Clinical data, including ocular symptoms and signs, ophthalmic and systemic imaging examinations, and the results of tumor biopsies were collected and analyzed.

Results

Twenty-three patients were included in

SUBMITTER: Zheng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8039673 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature